The Adagio Will Tear Your Heart Out

On January 20,  1942, more than a dozen high ranking officials of the Nazi Party and German government met over lunch in a villa outside Berlin. What they did around that  table, over rich expensive foods and fine wines as their Army starved and froze in Stalingrad, reverberates today. It is understood that mans inhumanity to his fellow man is too common. But at this lunch meeting, that inhumanity reached a new, as yet unheard of height. In these two hours, hatred became wholesale murder. Discrimination became a de facto excuse for destruction. In just two hours, the Nazi government of Germany planned and began to implement "the Final  Solution..."